The all-too familiar tropes of the open road are turned on their head in Andrea Arnold’s road trip film American Honey, creating a visionary epic of a new kind of unforgiving landscape.

Star (Sasha Lane) sits at the heat of this hypnotic odyssey, saddled with the responsibility of caring for two pre-teen siblings in Nowheresville, Middle America. Spotting her chance to escape, she joins forces with a rowdy door-to-door sales gang (haven’t we all?) led by shifty Jake (Shia Labeouf) and his untrusting girlfriend Krystal (Riley Keogh). And so the tale of self discovery begins.